ok guys, i am wanting to know whats the best animal to get as a pet.... Me and my girl were discussing getting a pet together, and we thought about a turtle and a frog, as we already have a 20 gallon tank...

Get a Red Ear Slider, or a Pacman Frog. There both awesome. Actually, if you have a 20 g you could possiblly get both. Just make an environment fit for both of them, I've seen lots of people do it. Although, I'm pretty sure the Pacman Frog eats baby mice, not sure how your gf feels about that. I just got 3 bullfrog tadpoles for my pond today for $00.99 each. There too loud to keep in the house though. Let me know what you decide to get.

^^As far as that goes I disagree. Salt water can be very expensive to keep running properly and the actual fish range from 20-100+ $ Also anything smaller that 50 gallons will give you trouble as far as nitrate levels and such go Not to mention the amount of upkeep necessary to keep your tank looking nice

Cichlids on the other hand wouldn't be as bad but again anything smaller than 50 gallons will requuire more attention than a frog or turtle

So that would bring me to say get a frog. Have owned several tree frogs and a pacman in the past and have had no problems. Very little upkeep depending on what kind of environment you decide to place your pet in As long as you dont have trouble with pinky mice or crickets definatly go for the FROG

I had a red ear slider for about 5 years when I was younger. Ended up releasing it because it was out growing the tank. It was kind of hard to keep the tank clean and every now and then flies would get into the tank. But I didn't have an aerated tank so that might have part of the problem.

If you get a turtle, trying feeding it the turtle pellets (food) sold at pet stores. That's all I ever fed my turtle.

I've got a turtle. Squirt is an Asian Box, very cute. I'm not sure of the size of his tank, but if you get a filter (if it's an aquatic turtle), it's less tank cleaning. I clean Squirt's tank every four months, used to be every month until I got the filter. Soap and water to clean out the tank, it's really easy.

Squirt's the most fun pet I've had since my guinea pig when I was younger.